Politics of expectation --
The misleading challenge --
The conventional candidate --
The binding promise --
The crowning of a president --
Outward bound --
Arming the presidency --
Guerilla warfare and guerilla government --
Images of excellence --
The illusions of consensus and the temptations of pragmatism --
The idea of the American empire --
Crisis as an instrument of policy --
The displacement of politics --
As a city upon a hill.